Environmental Impacts of Energy

Environmental Impacts of Energy

"Metro Detroit is home to the nations second-most-contaminated site for mercury, a substance that can poison fish and pose serious health risks to children and pregnant women and their fetuses, according to an environmental report.

Authors of the report, based on a scientific analysis of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data, said the 22-square-mile region in Metro Detroit receives abnormally high deposits from airborne mercury. Coal-burning power plants and other local sources are to blame for about 80 percent of the mercury pollution, according to New York-based Environmental Defense."